It started with that idea cliche: a flash of inspiration. That unparalleled moment when an idea comes to you fully formed and begging to be followed. In this case, that meant finding out how to start a company, research and secure trademarks and design, fabricate and market bikes. I was looking at a reusable grocery [...]
Buddhify is the world’s first mass market modern meditation mobile app. It is available for iPhone and Android platforms. On Design: What organisations or traditional institutions want isn’t necessarily what people want and so focussing more on the needs of real humans rather than trying to fill holes in a balance sheet is what good [...]
Finding Portland was produced, shot, and edited in 51 days during March and April at the invitation of TEDx Portland, where the video was unveiled to a sell out crowd of 650 and met with a standing ovation. Filmed in Portland and the Columbia Gorge, this time-lapse piece offers a new perspective to the City [...]
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Illustrator, animator and fashion filmmaker Quentin Jones paints a daring self-portrait in an inky new film for NOWNESS. The London-based model and Cambridge philosophy graduate, whose mélange of hand-drawn and digital animations have appeared in fashion films for Vogue, AnOther and The Hunger, ditched the usual scripts, storyboards and wardrobe to star in a freewheeling two-tone romp. A personal project [...]
Today Google launched ‘Google Drive’. A slightly new way for individuals to save their files and access them using a variety of smart devices, including iphones, ipads, and any other idevice a user could possibly imagine. I suppose no one at Google bothered to Google what the iCloud is before launching this news. Nevermind. In [...]
If you run an online magazine, most of your readers will never go through your archive, even if you design a neat archive page. It’s not you; it’s just that going through archives is not very popular these days. So, how do you actually make readers dig in without forcing them? How do you invite [...]
With more than 140 million active users tweeting 340 million times per day as of March 2012, drawing in followers onTwitter with one well-crafted, 140 character-long tweet can be pretty difficult. While you may not have mastered the art of tweeting yet, the least you can do is avoid tweeting the wrong thing. Thankfully, researchers at Carnegie [...]
Charis Tsevis, a renowned Greek visual designer, has created one of the most talked about Coachella magazine covers for OC weekly. The image is a mosaic made out of numerical data that shows the growth of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, CA and put together, creates a portrait of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. [...]
This is a 36-inch by 48-inch mosaic portrait of George Zimmerman mugshot. Andy Bell put the Zimmerman mug shot through some Photoshop paces and mapped out a way of recreating it in red, green, yellow and orange candies. His wife and friends helped him with the gluing he said. Would you like to learn simple tools [...]
